JaBo53

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I watched the Kingsglaive movie the other day in prep to play the game. I was sad I couldn't find it for free on any of the subscriptions I pay for. I have all the movie channels for comcast, have netflix, and have amazon video. Wasn't on youtube either.. So I rented it, but I feel it was worthwhile to increase the enjoyment of a game franchise that I love.

They've been working on this game for like 10 years, so I'm hoping it's actually going to be good. Anyone else pre-order it or plan to grab early?

OH, and I say Final Chance bc the last FF games have been a bit meh... this needs to restore my faith in the series.

Not reading it all as there are a little bits of spoilage in there I don't want, but saw this:

""I don’t know how Final Fantasy XV will be remembered when held up to the rest of the Final Fantasy pantheon. But I do know that it’s got everything I want from a Final Fantasy game. I know that it’ll be yet another snapshot in a life filled with Final Fantasy. Another grand adventure, another gang of worthy heroes; another tale of crystals and magic and betrayal and love, all beautiful melodies and lush scenery and the finely honed complexity of carefully choreographed combat. Onward to secrets beyond the horizon, and don’t forget the Phoenix Down. If that’s not Final Fantasy, I don’t know what is.""

I read it all and didn't think it really contained too much spoilage. It seems like it's a great game, although it suffers from a few issues, especially crashes. However, I wonder if it would crash less or not at all on a PS4 Pro instead of the plain PS4.

Well, got a few hours in tonight. It's pretty nice so far. I'm still not a fan of the next gen fighting and only controlling one person. But that's my only complaint so far. The story is going along fine, there's some immersion that is nice. The gameplay is fun. It's got traces from other FF games. Can get sound tracks for your radio from the old games.

The leveling is nice, the abilities and techs seem cool. I haven't been restricted on exploring my playground which has some level 30+ stuff in it so if I wanted to go crazy grinding I could.

So.. so far I'm rdy for more. Already better than 13 was. Although 13 did have more turn based combat I think. ?

Awesome! Did you notice the size of the battle area? The review said that sometimes it's too small and you end up accidentally stepping out, making monsters just stare at you. Did you see any technical issues?

oh ya haha. So far it's really good. I don't feel the pull to like stay up all night playing and I do not prefer the combat system. But, the story is nice, the game play is fun and immersive. It feels decent. I like it more than FF13 for sure. We'll see how it stands up to the others.

If you look at the picture, you will notice my health is at 1. It was his turn (you can see on the left side what actions were last taken, he attacked me, he cast a spell on me, he played a minion) ... then he conceded!

He was at low health, so he thought that I was going to win on my turn, however, if he would have ended his turn, I would have taken 1 point of fatigue damage on my turn and died. (Since my draw pile was empty.)

> I've done that, where I've conceded or made a huge misplay and immediately regretted it. Or, started attacking minions instead of face, only to realize I had lethal and blew it lol.

I miss lethal rarely now. My misplays these days are in trading or not seeing some other in hand synergy with a card in play. I am taking a bit more time per turn to cut that down but it happens sometimes.

Yup. I always check for lethal first now. But I still make plenty of misplays. I miscounted my mana needed last night. I was in a desperate position, but thought I had enough to use hero power plus a couple spells. I used my power then realized I was only at 8 or 9 mana. So my plan failed. I had a cabalist tome in hand which was my backup plan. I cast it just to see what I got. Yup, ice block was there :(

Excited for the last wing to be released. I've got all the others done and heroic completed, ready to get that new card back and last chunk of cards.

Thanks! I'm working on hunter or druid now probably. Depends which deck looks fun after this last wing gets released. I'm at 371 for druid and like 420 for hunter. I really want to get to 1-5 rank tho.

I built a Curator Zoo deck that is incredible fun. The synergy you can create with Beasts, Dragons and Murlocs using the Curator, Zoobot and Menagerie Magician is nuts. One match I buffed a Murloc, Beast and Dragon to crazy levels for a nuts smash to the face that won me the game. It also runs Anyfin Can Happen if you want a Murloc ending too. I also added Pantry Spider for some extra fun with a new card and so far it's not a Tier 1 deck but it gets enough wins to be fun.

Servant and Firelands Portal are both decent. Best Servant I got was hitting a Mindgames into a Deathwing, but more often than that he kills himself. But, if Yogg himself is overall better with RNG, then why not Servant?

I might go back to him. The Portal wasn't bad either. I took 2 out for the Cult Sorcerers and I think that helps my early game.

Nice deck. I just played VS a Mage w firelands portal and got WRECKED due to the Portals RNG pulling a Halazeal and then... something else that was OP. Firelands seems be a great late game card but games are often decided in the early game so it wouldn't help there.

I am tweaking a Secret Hunter NZoth Barnes Call of the Wild deck right now. So far i've got most of my wins just by grinding them down then occasionally pulling NZoth, Call of the Wild as a finisher. It's pretty good on it's own due to the stickiness of the deathrattle minions and I am trying out Kindly Grandmother to a good effect.

Some people claim Barnes is wicked OP but so far he seems to have pulled stuff that seems to be reasonably decent. He can pull a Highmane but usually pulls another deathrattle minion making it a pretty decent and not OP effect. So at the worst case he pulls Yeti stats and best case a very nice deathrattle minion.

Yeah, I need to look at my capabilities a little more, I could have saved that polymorph boar for my guy for an extra 4 damage... but then, I wanted that 6 butt to turn into 2 so it would absorb less from the flamewalker, so I think maybe I was still right. That equated to 4 dmg.

I was pretty happy when I finally opened my second shield slam and pyromancer in my latest brawl open I recently crafted my first Rag, which is awesome I Rag so much. But i've been on a Legendary drought recently.

I dusted the normals, those are 2 I'm REALLY happy to have in gold. I need Sylvannas gold next. I had about 6k dust after and could have got her... but crafting golds is ugggg. I've done Ysera and Confessor... so spendy.

I've got just about enough to do either golden N'Zoth or 2 golden Cabilist's Tomes. Hard decision... or use to make a golden leggie that you can't open (like the new one that summons a 1/1 of a guy from your deck)

Oh, I used Anyfin pretty successfully a while back, was brutal One hit kill type thing. (just using the haste and buff murlocs) But now that "standard" is a thing, it banned out some of the needed ones.

Yeah, it has but one or two Anyfin's are really powerful. I had a crazy match with simply playing 2 blugills and 2 warleaders. Still refining the deck though but it's either won or only lost by a handful of HP on the opponents side.

Yeah Yogg is a heavy RNG card. One of the reasons I want to and don't want to craft it. Focusing more on the other legendary staples before I get Yogg. Not sure what to do next. Tyrion or maybe Cairne? I am leaning heavily to Tyrion as I like Paladin and Tyrion is OP as hell.

That's what they've said. Which is why I am now crafting all the neutral legendaries. I have nearly all the WoTG one's I really wanted and I am now crafting neutral ones because i'll be able to use them longer.

I just went through and decrafted a ton of Wild cards. I kept ones I'd use if I ever played Wild, but I decrafted a bunch of legends, epics and gold epics, gold rares. There's a golden iron juggernaut I'm debating on, but I liked that card... 1600 dust tho gives me 2 gold rares or a gold epic, so tempting... My mage deck is almost all gold, just need 6 more golden epics =o

I am keeping all the wild cards. I think it's going to be a more compelling format as the game advances and might be really interesting someday. At least I think so. That said, pretty sure Maxxena won't ever be something I put in a deck but since it was one of the first legendaries I had and used a lot because of that, I have a hard time letting it go

Pally was at 30 health when I passed my last turn. He attacked my refreshment vendor taking him to 27... then drew the final piece if the combo (PS, the 2nd Power Overwheling was off of dark peddler, this is a Reno C'Thun combo deck lol

Says I have 3266 total wins... but I don't know all what is added up to get that. If only the class wins, then that leaves 1,276 wins for Priest, and I did think it might be 1000, so what's another 276 lol.

Still only an 11 win arena run (can't get that 12 cap) with 1643 total wins in arena.

Yeah, I am focusing on how to play around certain kinds of class cards. It's got me a few times where my board gets wiped but I totally played into it. I have to mentally remind myself, this could be coming how do we play to that.

Yeah for sure. Like always be prepared for a brawl. If you control the board, don't flood it. The best T8 play can sometimes be to just attack, use power, pass. I miss Loatheb for that very thing. Was great to throw him out and know they can't flame strike next turn.

I picked it up since it's on sale for $17 for the GotY edition and it's been one of the most fun games I've played in a long time. I played 4 hours last night and I'm so eager to play more tonight.

Pick it up if you don't have it!

It's similar to assassin's creed or batman where you can sneak and stealth around and the combat is really interactive, so that's fun. But to me so far, what's really cool are the enemy captains you come across. The orcs have all their normal grunts, but then they have a pile of captains, veteran captains, elite captains out there. Each with their own personality and traits.

I came across this guy that was a veteran captain, and I was a little new to be facing him, so I ran and hid. I'm hiding and hiding, but unlike in other games where you are generally safe after hiding for a while, not so here. This captain was a tracker! He and his posse followed me around this cliff, through some other areas, up a ladder, down a ledge.... I mean, I didn't know where to go lol. I used all my bow power shots on him but he was still only half dead (and he was supposed to be weak to bow shots).

I eventually lead them to a big rock wall and and they went around to the left and I circled behind them and picked off some of the guys at the end with a bow. Then was able to finish the captain with 4 more powered up shots. (I only get 4 at a time, then have to recharge them elsewhere). He died and was crossed off the captains list.

I thought sweet. I picked up a power-up from him and went on my day.

Well, I came across him again, except he was wearing like a bandage on his head. He said, you thought you killed me?! And we fought again. This time, I ran away and he lead the chase. I turned and attacked him while his posse was a little lagged behind. I dropped him to half health pretty quick, and he said he was retreating and tried running. He ran behind his orcs and dropped off a ledge. Well, I sprinted past his group, dove off the ledge and clipped him with my sword, then turned and did a wicked finishing move on him!

This game is uber fun. Grunts get promoted to captain when there's room and enough time passes (or you die). There's tons of side missions and power struggles between the captains... I haven't been so excited for a game in ages!

The game sounds great and it's FAR up my list of games to play. What with Fallout 4 and Legacy of the Void I have quite a bit of game for the time being. That said the Steam Holiday sale is coming too and I might pick this up then(if it's on sale).

This game keeps getting recommended to me by friends, I will pick this up it's just a matter of when I can play it

Hopefully it is, it's 66% off right now for the full package. maybe it'll be same or cheaper for Christmas. It is worth every penny. I'm just dying to get off work and go play!

And I hear ya, far too often I pick up a game because it's on sale, but then never make time to play it. Or I buy it full price and never play it lol. I'm pretty bad about it, honestly. I was nervous I'd do the same here, but watching the 8.5 minute video on steam sold me so hard. (Watch that if you haven't, it talks about some of the aspects of gameplay and you'll be drooling after).

It's definitely an action game, not an RPG game, but that's totally fine by me, I don't have much time for RPGs anymore... I can't dedicate enough time to them.

I played another 5 hours last night..... I'm starting to get into the power struggles of the orcs with each other. I had a quest which basically is a lead in to me flexing my influence. The quest involved a scrawny whiny orc working with me. I basically killed a captain and this little guy cut his ear off and took credit for the kill so he'd be captain. Then I killed an elite captain for him and finally a Warchief. I had not previously faced a warchief. I had to infiltrate his fortress first (not interior) and kill a bunch of guys to get his attention. So now, this scrawny orc is the new warchief, but he supposedly will follow my commands... I know at some point (probably now that I did this little intro into it) I can mindmeld with orcs to dominate their mind and make them my puppet. Then I think I can manipulate the power struggles to get them to rise to higher ranks as my puppet. We'll see!

My combat skills are definitely on the rise, I can face down a hundred melee grunts. I still die to javelin throwers (pesky bastards) and captains are still hard, especially with a swarm of enemies or other captains. This one captain was particularly hard to kill, he had loaded armor on, huge shield and unblockable spear attacks. He slashed me and threw me around for half my health... lot of dodging. But he was also a learner. The same tactic didn't work more than once on him. He was immune to ranged attacks. I couldn't jump/dodge over the top of him to get him from behind easier.. He called reinforcements often. The only way I finally won after running away ragged was to keep sprinting away, climbing this platform and then sneak kill his allies to get him alone before more showed up. Even 1v1 he was super hard to fight since he blocked any head on attack.

I finally killed this other bastard that rose all way up the ranks and kept surviving encounters with me which earned him promotions. He killed me as a grunt a long time ago which promoted him to captain. Then every time I faced him he was with 3 other captains and I couldn't win. He finally got to a high power that he was strong 1v1, he had this bloody wicked long knife that dug into me. But I got him last night! He was doing a recruitment mission to get orcs to join him. I snuck in to disrupt him. Well, I shot down a nest of angry hornet things and he happened to be afraid of them, so he ran for it and the recruits were like, I'm not going to follow that guy! So success there, plus I left the outpost he was in and chased him as he fled. I caught up to him and since he was in a fleeing state, I was able to land a 1 hit KO on him.

The little personality quirks are really cool. Some guys are scared of beasts, some get enraged by you hurting their guards, each captain has different strengths and weaknesses. Also, the dialogue is fun. One captain I kept facing was a cannibal and he kept making eating jokes. I'm excited to start getting more into the power struggles and trying to get a foothold against these warchiefs.

Game is so fun! A solid 9+ hours played now and I'm still so ready to play more!

That totals 1291. It says I have 1616 Play Mode Wins though. Also, it says My best arena key is 911, but I don't know what that means lol. Ok, I used google. That's my total wins in the arena, my best run is 10 wins.

Let's say for the sake of averages, I have a 50/50 win ratio. Meaning, I've won 1616 games in ranked and lost 1616 games in ranked. For Arena, let's say I average 4 wins with 3 losses. That means with 911 wins it would have taken me 228 arena runs to accrue that many wins which gives me 684 losses. (I'm a little weirded out by that number... that seems crazy to me).

So just in ranked mode, I've played about 3232 games and in arena another 1595. That's 4827 total games for ranked and arena. Let's say each game is average of 10 minutes. That's 804.5 hours (33.5 days) play time.

And that's just in the actual matches, not deck building, not single player missions, not opening packs etc etc.

And 10 minute average might be low, if it's a 15 minute average well, we'd be looking at 1206.75 hours (or over 50 days) played.

Hard to say how many priest wins I have over 500, I still him priest the most, could be around 800-1000..

Something, crazy is how little I've played Mage in the last few months lol. Also, paladin is odd, I only gained 28 wins in ranked play, but gained 15 levels. He was my most picked in arena though I think. Murloc Knight is too good to pass up!

My focus clearly was Hunter/Warrior. I made some fun decks for them and my druid is just now ramping up. I was at around 240 druid wins on Friday. Been playing it a lot these last few days.

Anyways, I like looking at these stats and changes over time. Thought I'd document it again and revisit in another 6 months.

Nice! You also get rewarded at end of the month for your ladder progress (it marks your best spot, not current at end of month). Ladder is weird because it can be challenging at all points of it. Since someone can be legendary rank and then get pushed backwards at end of month, maybe then they don't play for a few weeks after... I've certainly lost at rank 20. There's also different deck styles that settle at different parts of the ladder. For instance, face-hunter or other aggro deck is best for getting through 20-10 I think.

I think my best is 6 or 7, I have a hard time getting under 10. When I play a consistent deck, I have the best results. Like I went from 15-10 in one day of druid play, but soon as I start switching to warrior and priest, I just fall off. Not to say those decks are bad, but I think you gotta be in the groove lol

This week's Brawl is super fun! Every time you cast a spell, you get a random minion that costs what you paid. (and it is what you paid for the spell, not it's normal casting cost). So, just make a deck of ALL spells! I'm 4-0 as a priest doing it. So far I've played against 3 druids and a paladin. Druid seems fairly favored with all the creature boosts it gets. I think mage would be great with all the damage spells to clear the board while putting out free creatures.

You should try it out... just load up on all the spells you can =] I'm not running a single creature in my deck. I've noticed some people are...and I just wouldn't, unless you were using a creature that made use of you casting a lot of spells or something. But they were running creatures just for the sake of it... it's not a good value to pay 2 mana for a creature when you can pay 2 mana for a spell plus get a freebie.

This one is great! I've put together a Mage deck, and I agree, don't bother with creatures, unless you don't have enough spells. I think I ended up with 24 spells and 6 creatures in my deck (and all the creatures are spell oriented of course). Twas a super fun time. So far I've only played one brawl (against a warlock), and I will be coming back often.

I did what you suggest in that I built a Priest deck with all spell cards and was pitted against a Mage doing the same thing. In the end I whomped them and it was due to the better randomness of my creatures spawning and got the free pack. I really like what they are doing with Tavern Brawl and at least get the first win for the deck.

I put in some Sludge Belchers, I can't make a deck without those they are a deck staple.

So, I've been trying with other classes, because really the only reward is XP for the class and a win towards any quest or for the 3 wins for 10 g. So, I have druid/mage/priest at lvl 60 so figured I'd try rogue or paladin... well argg, they are so not as good as priest or mage or druid! I didn't even try warlock, shaman, or hunter. They don't have expensive spells.

Priest is the best, mind control their best minion and then get a deathwing. But ya, my win rate went from like 90+% to like <50% trying paladin which is definitely not a bad looking option. But Priest/mage/druid are where it's at on this one.

This game is fun. I've played 144 hours of it! You start the game by answering questions about your background which influences how and where you start the game. You can do little quests for people so you get a little starting cash and start adding in the lowest rank soldiers from small towns (for free). Then you do some fighting and level up and level your hired band up to higher classes. You have skills to level up and equipment to upgrade. There's also hero type units that you can obtain and they gain levels just like you do and you get to control their equipment and skills.

Then there's politics kinda...there's different nations at war and you can help the rulers or do your own thing. You can eventually buy into towns or become a vassal or even try to name yourself king.

Oh and the combat is fun...more involved.

This game is hard to classify. It's RGP, Strategy, Open World, Action, Amazing (it's a real genre...).